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William Tell |
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May 14, 2012 10:49:22am |
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Re: I am there... |
Ha--had to quote this section as it describes just what I've become (context: new DEAD listeners are selective):
"...This means little to the new breed of Dead listener who—like Geologist—may’ve only seen the band once, far past their peak. “I don’t listen to much beyond ‘74,” he admits. Don’t wanna hear any of Brent Mydland’s over-affected blues-growl? Delete! All straight on Weir’s “Looks Like Rain” freak outs? They don’t exist! Junkie guitarist? What junkie guitarist? The generation of jambands that perverted the Dead’s legacy into “grassroots marketing” and a demographic to be targeted with key chains and branded rolling papers? Merely an illusion!
Experimental guitarist and electronic musician Greg Davis perhaps best encapsulated the filtering from a musicological point of view. In 2005, the Burlington musician distributed a bootleg, DJ-style mix of Grateful Dead music fashioned from feedback jams, Lesh’s electronic experiments with Ned Lagin, Merry Prankster babble, collaged chunks of Anthem of the Sun, and a little bit of sunshine folk. Mydland does not appear...."
That last line?
CLASSIC!
EDIT: WTF? This is a GOLD mine, LiA...had to add this comment to the article above, since it is probably someone here that has written this about me, eh?
Frickin too good:
"...This article is garbage...“I don’t listen to anything past ’74”...oh really? you must be so sophisticated and well informed to have such a developed opinion…This shit is ridiculous…You conclude the article by saying now that the dead isn’t touring around punks and hipsters and quit hating the dead because now they are stylish…which by the way, have you heard of Furthur? Jerry Love FTW..."
This post was modified by William Tell on 2012-05-14 17:49:22
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light into ashes |
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May 14, 2012 10:58:23am |
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Re: I am there... |
Yeah, the comments to that article are just ridiculous! What a narrow-minded spectrum. (The blogger I linked to talks a bit about them.)
It's true that Dead listeners can be very selective these days, phasing out whole eras & band-members...
Probably Deadheads back in the day would've been just as selective in their tastes, but of course, if you were going to a show in the '70s-90s, you had no choice but to see the whole show, with whatever keyboardist was there!
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William Tell |
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May 14, 2012 11:31:45am |
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Re: I am there... |
Yeah, I was struck by that too--how cranky can you be?! I generally find these sorts of articles to touch on any number of points I consider reasonable, sometimes new and different, but always enjoyable (I may be easy to please)...then, the folks that respond/reply/comment, invariably rake the person over the coals--suppose that is self selection in the extreme.
I thought it was really funny, though, that both the author and the commentators could've written those couple of brief sections about "me", so to speak. I've often felt my "nothing past 71" conveys a sense of self-importance, and of my having "arrived" (at higher consciousness, of course), blah, blah, blah.
All true, no doubt.
Anyhow, love the stuff on the Monkees--SStills, etc., etc; can't get my surviving older brother to concede they had at least some talent...
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ringolevio |
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May 15, 2012 06:07:38am |
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Re: I am there... |
"how cranky can you be?!"
pretty cranky :)
(Haven't read any of these articles yet, hope to get time.) Just sayin' :)
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